Re: Worrisome IDE PIO transfers...

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sunday 29 of February 2004 01:58, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > I like Alan's idea to use loopback instead of "bswap".
> >
> > Neat but no more zerocopy that way.  I much prefer a swap-as-you-go...
>
> Okay, better solution:
>
> - on Atari/Q40:
>   if drive->bswap use insw/outsw instead of swapping variants

Yep, that sounds the most logical. Richard?

> - on others:
>   use device mapper as suggested by Matt Mackall
>   (no extra copying and you can use DMA to read disk from TiVo!)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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